Means for making horseshoes.



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it l PATENTED APR.14, 190a. M. s. REIGH. MEANS FOR MAKING HORSESHOBS.

' I APPLICATION FILED MAR. 1, 1907.

Wll/VASSES MARTIN S. REIGH, OF PITTSBURG, PENNSYLVANIA.

MEANS FOR MAKING HORSESHOES.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, MARTIN S. REIGH, a citizen of the United siding atPittsburg, in the county of Allegheny and State of Pennsylvania, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Means for MakingHorseshoes, of which the following is a specification, reference beinghad therein to the accompanying drawing.

This invention relates to improvements in devices for making horseshoes, and the invention has for its object the provision of novel meanswhereby horse shoes can be easily and economically made by hand inconsiderable less time, and with much less labor than is required in themaking of horse shoes by hand in the usual manner.

A further object of this invention is to provide a simple andinexpensive attachment for anvils to facilitate the forming of horseshoes from metal bars.

The present application is in lieu of an abandoned application filed byme March 18, 1905, Ser. No. 250,717.

The invention consists in thenovel construetion, combination andarrangement of parts to be hereinafter more fully described and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings illustrating this invention, 1* igure 1 isa perspective view of an anvil equipped with my improved attachment, andFig. 2 is a perspective view of the attachment detached from the anvil.

The anvil 1 is of the usual form excepting that a socket or cavity 16 isformed in the upper face thereof, the anvil being rovided with the usualhorn 2, and a suitab e base 3 resting on a suitable foundation andsecured as by spikes 3 or in any other desired manner. The upper face ofan anvil horn is usually flat or substantially so at the inner end ofsuch face, and upon this flat face I arrange an upper clamp plate 4, theanvil horn being engaged on the underneath face by a lower clam plate 6,curved intermediate its ends to conform to the lower face of the anvilhorn, these two clamp plates being connected together by bolts 5, one ofwhich passes through a slot 4 in the upper clamp plate, as clearly seenin Figs. 1 and 2 of the drawings. The u per clamp plate carries a smallhorn 7 extending from the clam plate over the main face of the anvil,and at a slight angle thereto. This upper clamp plate 4 also carries asmall horn 8 so located on the clamp plate 4 as to extend along side themain horn Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed March 1, 1907. Serial No. 360,080.

States of America, re-' Patented April 14., 1908.

2 at a slight angle to the surface thereof, and in the oppositedirection to the horn 7. Pivotally-mounted upon one of the verticalbolts 5 is a rearwardly extending strap 9 to the free end of which isriveted or otherwise secured as at 10 an inverted-channel shaped punchbed or plate 11, preferably made of soft metal, such, for instance as coper. The plate 1 1 is used as a punch bed and is adapted to fit over thetop of the anvil 1, as clearly seen in Fig. 1 of the drawings. To assistin holding this late 11 on the anvil face, it is provided with anopening 12 which receives a headed pin 14, the opening 12 registeringwith the usual hardy hole in an anvil, so that the pin 14, when passedthrough the opening 12 will also enter said hardy hole.

Suitably secured to the strap 9 adjacent to the punch bed or plate 11 isa bracket 14*, carrying a pin 15 adapted to fit in the rectangularopening 16 heretofore referred to as being provided in the upper face ofthe anvil 1. The bracket 14 in the present instance is shown assubstantially U-shaped, the pin 15 being formed with a shank to bewelded onto one arm or leg of the bracket 14, the other arm or leg ofthis bracket being suitably secured as by riveting to the strap 9. Itwill be evident that the bracket 14 and the pin 15 may be formed in onepiece if desired. The bracket 14 lies on top of the anvil, the shank ofthe pin 15 and the inner arm or leg of the bracket entering the recessor cavity 16.

The in 15 is employed for holding the horse s 0e While the nail holesare being punched therein, the bend in the shoe being placed around pin15 with the parts of the shoe in which the nail holes are to be punchedlying upon the punch bed or plate 11.

As the under surface of the main horn 2 of the anvil is usually inclinedupwardly towards the point of the horn, the tendency of the clam member6 Would be to become loosened by the severe strains to which the clampmember 4 is subjected when using the horns 7 and 8 carried by said clampmember 4. The object therefore in providing the bracket 14 to overliethe anvil and have a part seating in the cavity 16 is to provide meansfor tying the clam members securely in osition on the anvil This isaccomplis ed by use of the bar 9, being connected at its one end to oneof the bolts 5, and being connected also to the bracket 14 and the punchbed 11. Should the pin 14 be removed at any time in order to make use ofthe hole 12 in the punch bed, the clamp mem bers are justas securelyheld on the anvil by reason of the strap 9 connecting them to thebracket 14.

The manner of using the attachment in the making of horse shoes is asfollows: Assuming that a bar of metal is to be bent, sha ed and punched,the said bar is first laid'e gewise across the top of theanvil in underthe horn 7, and the bar bent by striking with a hammer, the horn 7during this operation serving to hold the blank firmly in position whenit is being struck, and preventing its opposite end from flyingupwardly. The bar is now placed over the edge of the main horn 2 andstruck with a hammer so as to cause it to bend around the anvil horn,the blank or bar in this position being held between the main horn 2 andthe small horn 8 at a slight angle to the longitudinal axis of thehorns, and bent around the horn so as to form the curved portion of thehorse shoe. The supplementary horns 7 and 8 it will therefore beobserved are used to maintain the blank firmly in position while theblank or bar is being operated upon to curve the same into the shoeblank. These horns are of special value, as they greatly reduce thelabor of holding the blank in proper position upon the anvil whileimparting thereto the desired curvature to obtain the shoe blank. Thespaces between the surface of the horns 7 and 8 and the adjacentsurfaces of the anvil horn are tapered, so that blanks of any requiredwidth may be inserted in these spaces, and firmly held by the horns 7and 8 while said blanks are being operated upon.

In forming the nail holes, the shoe blank is placed on the punch bed 11with the bend of the shoe around the pin 15 and the holes are thenpunched in the ordinary manner, the said p ate or punch bed 11 being, asheretofore stated of a soft metal, prevents the punch from striking theanvil and being injured thereby. By connecting the pin 15 to the bracket14, the said pin can not be arred from the anvil during the forming ofthe shoe blank, and is therefore always in position and ready for usewhen desired in connection with punching the nail holes in the shoe. Theattachment may be readily removed from the anvil at any time desired bysimply unscrewing the nuts which hold bolts 55, and the clamp members,it will be observed may be used independently of the punch bed and pinif desired, and also the punch bed and pin may be used independently ofthe clamp members, should it be so desired.

What I claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

1. An anvil provided with a main horn at one end, a plate disposedtransversely of said anvil and extending beyond the same at the ends andprovided with oppositely-extend ing supplementary horns, one of said suplementary horns extending over the main ace of the anvil and the othersup lementary horn extending alongside the anvi horn, and means forsecuring said plate upon said anvil.

2. The combination with an anvil having a horn, of a plate mounted u onsaid horn and having two supplemental orns projecting therefrom inopposite directions, and means for securing said plate upon said horn.

3. The combination with an anvil having a horn, of a plate disposedtransversely of the anvil and extending beyond the same at the ends, asupplemental horn carried by said plate and extending over the main faceof the anvil, and means for securing said plate upon said anvil.

4. In an attachment for making horse shoes, the combination with ananvil having a main horn at one end, and having a recess in its upperface near the other end, of clamp members secured to the main horn, abracket carrying a pin engaging in said recess in the anvil, a punch bedengaging the upper face of the anvil, and a strap connecting the saidpunch bed and the bracket to said clamp members.

5. The combination with an anvil having a horn, of a plate disposedtransversely of the anvil and extending beyond the same at the ends, asupplemental horn carried by said plate and extending along the anvilhorn, and means for securing said plate upon said anvil.

6. The combinationwith an anvil having a main horn, of a plate restingon top of the main horn at the base thereof, means for attaching saidplate to said main horn, two supplementary horns projecting from saidplate, one extending over the top of the anvil and the other extendingalongside the main horn of the anvil, the spaces between the underneathface of the supplementary horns and the adjacent surface of the anvildecreasing in depth towards the base of the supplementary horns.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in the presence of twowitnesses.

MARTIN S. REIGH.

